Next for the Gay Rights Movement: Fillg the Spirual Dimensn | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• GAY RELATNSHIP.
• AFTER GAY RIGHTS, GAY SPIRUALY.
• IS DEEPAK CHOPRA GAY?
• IS DEEPAK CHOPRA GAY?
• GAY BOYIEND’S PROPOSAL.
• NEXT FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FILLG THE SPIRUAL DIMENSN

GAY RELATNSHIP.

I happen to have a gay adult child and wonred how that ncept fs wh that orientatn? Homosexualy has been part of human nature for as long as rerd history, but social prsur and relig superstn have stigmatized .

As a rult, there are few, if any, tradnal scriptur that help a morn gay person to grow spirually. To fill the gap, a host of books have spng up talkg about fah and God terms that allow gay people to feel spirually worthy.

I'd urge you to read such a book orr to settle your own doubts, for every parent of a gay child has them. In the straight world, there are mon, but mistaken, assumptns that gay upl mimic the rol of hband and wife, one playg at beg feme, the other mascule. Some straight relatnships fail the tt; some gay on pass .

AFTER GAY RIGHTS, GAY SPIRUALY.

I have never had a homosexual relatnship before, whereas he is openly gay.

It feels like a genue emotn for me, but I’m aaid of what my fay, iends and the people who have known me for so long might thk or how they n react, due to our relig background, and their general opn about gay upl.

If turns out this gay relatnship is a short-lived episo your otherwise straight life, then you n spare yourself the explanatns by wag.

IS DEEPAK CHOPRA GAY?

Instead of beg gay, let's say you were bald. Beg gay is more difficult to e to terms wh than baldns, of urse, bee of society's attus. Relign is part of society, and when enters the suatn, one wds up wh yet another layer of disapproval—perhaps the most severe of all—bee to be gay, acrdg to Christian fundamentalists, is to put your soul jeopardy.

Remedi: Meet other gay people who have good self-teem, jo a gay social club, make one good gay iend, make one good straight iend who is fe wh homosexualy. Remedi: Read a book on morn fah and gay tolerance, fd a gay iend who is also Christian, seek out a gay pastor. Remedi: Jo a gay group that is about somethg bis sex (hikg, movi, dancg, hobbi), read about hero and pneers of gay liberatn, intify wh strong role mols who have succsfully bed sex and love.

There are many more issu I uld have clud, but the pot is to first get you out of yourself so that you n form ls self-stctive beliefs about beg gay.

IS DEEPAK CHOPRA GAY?

It don't matter whether gen, upbrgg, predisposn or early behavr ntributed to havg a gay inty. It’s taken s for gay activists to achieve the most basic right that every mory serv: equaly unr the law.

The fact that the urt did validate state laws agast homosexualy was the bellwether for a shift public acceptance that will only accelerate the future. That’s the dimensn of spirualy, where relig tolerance has been the norm and fdg the way to self-acceptance has been a poignant personal stggle for every gay man and woman.

GAY BOYIEND’S PROPOSAL.

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It would be easy, and probably rrect, to say that the qutns are more poted for gay people, bee they are burned by social disapproval, hidn prejudic, and long-held dogmas about God’s nmnatn of homosexualy. For gay people to realize their place a livg kd of spirualy, seven needs mt be filled:. I hate to announce to accepted prejudice (both si and outsi the gay muny), but my experience, gay people have done more to fulfill the needs than society as a whole.

NEXT FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FILLG THE SPIRUAL DIMENSN

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What this means is that your gay iends and those happy gay upl kissg on their weddg day have gone through personal stggl you probably have only a ltle awarens of. Seekg for God down to seekg onelf the grand scheme of thgs, and every gay person knows what that feels like. On one ont most gay people have to e to terms wh the relign they were brought up .

Gom, who me out fairly late life, vot nsirable space to the nmnatn of homosexualy the Bible, and his approach the face of the nmnatns is summarized the book’s subtle, “Readg the Bible wh Md and Heart. For gay people who want to rema among the fahful, there are church every large cy that will wele them.